mlsanityData to 14 Oct 2026

ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository

arXiv 1512.03012 ↗First posted 9 Dec 2015cs.GR cs.AI cs.CGcited by 2,897

Not on the map. Why?

Cited by 256 in Diffusion models, but placed by its own abstract, which didn’t fit.

Abstract (arXiv)

We present ShapeNet: a richly-annotated, large-scale repository of shapes represented by 3D CAD models of objects. ShapeNet contains 3D models from a multitude of semantic categories and organizes them under the WordNet taxonomy. It is a collection of datasets providing many semantic annotations for each 3D model such as consistent rigid alignments, parts and bilateral symmetry planes, physical sizes, keywords, as well as other planned annotations. Annotations are made available through a public web-based interface to enable data visualization of object attributes, promote data-driven geometric analysis, and provide a large-scale quantitative benchmark for research in computer graphics and vision. At the time of this technical report, ShapeNet has indexed more than 3,000,000 models, 220,000 models out of which are classified into 3,135 categories (WordNet synsets). In this report we describe the ShapeNet effort as a whole, provide details for all currently available datasets, and summarize future plans.

Key facts. Cited by 2,897 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 9 Dec 2015.

Builds on

No reference list yet.

Built on by

Cited by year (2026 to 14 Oct)

Citing papers per year: 2018: 1; 2019: 0; 2020: 1; 2021: 384; 2022: 515; 2023: 611; 2024: 604; 2025: 494; 2026: 287.

2,897 papers.

Sort:

By area:

  1. 2022Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objectscited by 1,540
  2. 2023Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Objectcited by 1,489
  3. 2021Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 1,205
  4. 2021Transformers in Vision: A Surveycited by 1,013
  5. 2023LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3Dcited by 849
  6. 2023Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objectscited by 774
  7. 2021Diffusion Probabilistic Models for 3D Point Cloud Generationcited by 735
  8. 2021Point-BERT: Pre-training 3D Point Cloud Transformers with Masked Point Modelingcited by 653
  9. 2021Common Objects in 3D: Large-Scale Learning and Evaluation of Real-life 3D Category Reconstructioncited by 652
  10. 2023SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Imagecited by 645
  11. 2022Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generationcited by 597
  12. 2023One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimizationcited by 560
38 more
  1. 2022LION: Latent Point Diffusion Models for 3D Shape Generationcited by 553
  2. 2021Neural Fields in Visual Computing and Beyondcited by 540
  3. 2023DL3DV-10K: A Large-Scale Scene Dataset for Deep Learning-based 3D Visioncited by 537
  4. 2023Zero123++: a Single Image to Consistent Multi-view Diffusion Base Modelcited by 521
  5. 20213D Shape Generation and Completion through Point-Voxel Diffusioncited by 516
  6. 2021Zero-Shot Text-Guided Object Generation with Dream Fieldscited by 513
  7. 2021Deep Marching Tetrahedra: a Hybrid Representation for High-Resolution 3D Shape Synthesiscited by 460
  8. 2022Masked Autoencoders for Point Cloud Self-supervised Learningcited by 459
  9. 20233DShape2VecSet: A 3D Shape Representation for Neural Fields and Generative Diffusion Modelscited by 458
  10. 2024CLAY: A Controllable Large-scale Generative Model for Creating High-quality 3D Assetscited by 455
  11. 2021ARKitScenes: A Diverse Real-World Dataset For 3D Indoor Scene Understanding Using Mobile RGB-D Datacited by 454
  12. 2022GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Imagescited by 446
  13. 2022XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Modelcited by 439
  14. 2022PointNeXt: Revisiting PointNet++ with Improved Training and Scaling Strategiescited by 436
  15. 2021Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapescited by 426
  16. 2024ViewCrafter: Taming Video Diffusion Models for High-fidelity Novel View Synthesiscited by 403
  17. 2022Kubric: A scalable dataset generatorcited by 381
  18. 2022ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generationcited by 380
  19. 2021ABO: Dataset and Benchmarks for Real-World 3D Object Understandingcited by 366
  20. 2023Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstructioncited by 364
  21. 2025Hunyuan3D 2.0: Scaling Diffusion Models for High Resolution Textured 3D Assets Generationcited by 356
  22. 2021Text2Mesh: Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshescited by 334
  23. 2021Light Field Networks: Neural Scene Representations with Single-Evaluation Renderingcited by 332
  24. 2022HOI4D: A 4D Egocentric Dataset for Category-Level Human-Object Interactioncited by 327
  25. 2023OmniObject3D: Large-Vocabulary 3D Object Dataset for Realistic Perception, Reconstruction and Generationcited by 326
  26. 2024Transolver: A Fast Transformer Solver for PDEs on General Geometriescited by 326
  27. 2023ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priorscited by 318
  28. 2025VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulnesscited by 315
  29. 2021Neural RGB-D Surface Reconstructioncited by 313
  30. 2023RealFusion: 360deg Reconstruction of Any Object from a Single Imagecited by 306
  31. 2021Vector Neurons: A General Framework for SO(3)-Equivariant Networkscited by 305
  32. 2023Geometry-Informed Neural Operator for Large-Scale 3D PDEscited by 303
  33. 2022Novel View Synthesis with Diffusion Modelscited by 300
  34. 2023Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splattingcited by 299
  35. 2022SDFusion: Multimodal 3D Shape Completion, Reconstruction, and Generationcited by 288
  36. 2022CLIP-Mesh: Generating textured meshes from text using pretrained image-text modelscited by 281
  37. 2023Generative Novel View Synthesis with 3D-Aware Diffusion Modelscited by 274
  38. 2022ULIP: Learning a Unified Representation of Language, Images, and Point Clouds for 3D Understandingcited by 267

50 most cited of 2,897 All 2,897 (JSON)